First is an ordinal number. If you came in first in a race, somebody must have come in second. Otherwise, it wasn't a race and nobody came in first or second. If you were awarded first honor, somebody must have been awarded the second honor. Otherwise, what they gave you is just an honor. You celebrate a first birthday on the assumption that there are going to be more of them in the future. Otherwise, it's just a birthday. Same thing's true with anniversaries. You celebrate a first anniversary presuming you will be celebrating a second one the next year, and maybe even a golden one forty-nine years later.

So when you talk about a first kiss, you're obviously assuming that there's going to be another one. You can't say, "we had our first kiss" if it only happened once, especially if there is no indication that it's going to happen again. You just say "we kissed." Or you say it like Cookie does and say it was the first and last.

;)

Squint your eyes and look closer, I'm not between you and your ambition. I am a poster girl with no poster. I am thirty-two flavors and then some. And I'm beyond your peripheral vision, so you might want to turn your head. 'Cause someday you're going to get hungry and eat most of the words you just said.

Both my parents taught me about good will and I have done well by their names. Just the kindness I've lavished on strangers is more than I can explain. Still there's many who've turned out their porch lights just so I would think they were not home and hid in the dark of their windows 'til I'd passed and left them alone

And God help you if you are an ugly girl, course too pretty is also your doom. 'Cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room. And God help you if you are a phoenix and you dare to rise up from the ash. A thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy while you are just flying back.

I'm not trying to give my life meaning by demeaning you. And I would like to state for the record, I did everything that I could do. I'm not saying that I'm a saint. I just don't want to live that way. No, I will never be a saint but I will always say...

Squint your eyes and look closer, I'm not between you and your ambition. I am a poster girl with no poster. I am thirty-two flavors and then some. And I'm beyond your peripheral vision, so you might want to turn your head. 'Cause someday you're going to get hungry and eat most of the words you just said.

-Ani DiFranco